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Merry XMas
22/12/2017

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Fairytale Church
19/12/2017

This shot is from one of my favourite spot in Switzerland. I took this some nights ago when waiting for the sunrise. I think that day it has been the most incredible winter day since I practice landscape photography. Stay tuned for the next one :D

Entering Spring
20/04/2017

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Photo Alpinisme
02/03/2017

A picture i will remember for a long time. This is from my recent photo travel in Norway, Senja. I took this during a cold sunrise. Reaching the summit has been a little hard this time, but sometimes is very funny to climb mountains, i dont know why i didnt meet anyone up there :D

Canon EOS 5D MArk IV @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Bajkal? Not Yet
24/02/2017

Bajkal is the most famous rift lake in the world for winter photography of ice cracking and 3d bubbles... in my case I prefer to go to Bernina Pass lake, not far from home, very similar situation this winter. But Siberia is allways in my dream :D

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Fairytale Sunrise
31/10/2016

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Rosso di Sera
29/10/2016

My autumn in Switzerland ends with this shot during a superb sunset in front of Piz Bernina and Morteratsch glacier, with bernina Express Red Train passing for last daily ride from Tirano to St.Moritz.

Best Friends
26/07/2016

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Reinebringen
19/07/2016

A shot from the peak of Reine, western part of Lofoten archipelago in Norway. After a nice ascent on a sloping path under a rainy afternoon i waited weather to change and in early evening this happen... an unbelivable moment in my summer vacations :D

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Blizzard
13/02/2016

Bernina Pass is the perfect place for weather extreme conditions. Sometimes the wind can blow very hard and cold can reach -30 °C. I love wandering through snow storms waiting for Bernina Express train coming.

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Stellisee Swirl
07/02/2016

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Next Stop... Heaven!
13/11/2015

My passion for trains comes from long time ago. Usually during photo tours the subject was the Bernina Express, this time my model was the Gornergrat Bahn train coming from Zermatt and with a new destination ... heaven!

Canon EOS 5DS @ 100mm

Canon EF 28-300 mm f/3.5-5.6 l is usm

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Misty Autumn
05/11/2015

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Föhn
25/10/2015

A föhn or foehn is a type of dry, warm, down-slope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range. In this photo foehn brings with him an unexpected clouds condition that is for me one of the most incredible situations ever seen in mountain.

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Lego City
14/10/2015

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White Paradise
06/10/2015

Early snowfalls are not so common. I normally don't have the chance to prepare a shot because, in this season, the snow normally lasts just a couple of hours creating such a white paradise. I dont want a winter scenery, I love to realize a postcard where the autumn is still present. So I just try, getting up in the middle of the night and struggling in the snow until the first light of dawn. Then is just poetry and memories.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Approaching
05/10/2015

I spent over 20 years exploring the mountains of the Valtellina, camera around my neck, always with great passion for the beauty of nature around me. Whenever I capture an image of these landscapes, it is a pure fun trying to register new situations in the image sensor.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

5,6

30''

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Cirsium
30/09/2015

I close this intense summer 2015 with a new location (for my files) from Aosta Valley! After a night spent in a tent to defend myself against moisture, I woke up to a beautiful sunrise on the banks of the Lacs Fenetre, with a dangerous Cirsium in bloom!

Blue Flow
28/09/2015

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Autumn Appeal
26/09/2015

I prepare myself for the quick passage of the autumn. I hope this season to realize some new interesting shots from little known spots, but in any case celebrating alps and nature in its most emotional moments.

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Transitions
27/08/2015

During my long alpinisme experiences I realized how mountains can change, quickly and spectacularly. In one of these moments I chased and captured one of my best shots ever. Now I treasure it jealously among my best memories.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Volcanic Matterhorn
10/08/2015

Yes, perhaps is not a great idea waiting for the sunset at 3000 mt of altitude while a thunderstorm approaching! I don't know what nature can reserve me, just know how to prepare my tent, take the last shot and quickly go inside.
Do you think this time has been a good idea?

Breaking the Silence
18/04/2015

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Hörnli @ Matterhorn
15/04/2015

The ridge of the Hörnli (northeast ridge) has to be considered the normal Swiss way to Matterhorn. Each summer a large number of mountaineers try to climb the Matterhorn via this ridge, the most popular route to the summit, facing directly to Zermatt. I took this shot on a windy day when hiking to the Hörnlihütte, clearly visible in the shot.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @120mm

Canon EF 28-300 mm f/3.5-5.6 l is usm

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Best of Switzerland
17/03/2015

Soglio is in my opinion one of the best swiss village. It lies in Bregaglia valley, not far from the italian border in the south and linked to the magic Engadine region when going towards the Malojapass.

When you walk through its streets you can feel the past that seems to live again, that's why I decided to make this HDR composition.

Canon EOS 5D @ 28mm

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4

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Rhätische Bahn
08/03/2015

I always had, since childhood, a passion for trains. My relatively short distance from Switzerland often leads me to devote entire days to the Bernina Express Train, of the Rhaetian Railway. Every time is a new challenge to find out the ideal situation and some inedit place where capture it while transporting the usual fleet of tourists discovering the beautiful Swiss nation.

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My Melancholy Blues
24/02/2015

As my all-Time idol Freddie Mercury said "Another party's over"...
...yes, the sun is setting behind clouds, dont expect more colors, for today this is the best that Nature can offer me, so I take this with me in my last shot, but of course in another great day to remember. Just consider photography a passion, but always trust in pictures!

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Lego City Trains
27/01/2015

For this shot I used my new Tilt & Shift lens. I was at the Landwasser Viadukt, along the Albula Railway, an iconic place where the Bernina Express passes on the way to Chur.
Do you agree with me about the title?

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Soft Glow
10/01/2015

An interesting soft light allowed me to portray this immaculate scene in the Swiss Alps. In my landscapes, I often try to reach a location just after a snowfall, so I can avoid the presence of human traces in the snow, this may partially change the natural beauty of the panorama.

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Hoar Frost
01/12/2014

When frost forms as minute ice crystals covering the ground, we just call it all frost. But sometimes the frost grains grow larger and are called hoarfrost crystals, as in this situation occured during the spring in Engadin, Switzerland.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Natural Pool
28/11/2014

Sometimes, photographing, we must be able to catch some shots also when the weather is next to the limit of visibility, risking to get into an icy natural pool, with ice crunching beneath our legs! Final result is the most important thing, and of course being sure to bring with you a new story to tell someone tomorrow!

Canon EOS 5D mark III @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Wonderland Time!
26/11/2014

The church of Celerina, in the Swiss alps, dates back to 1478 and stands on top of the remains of its predecessor, a late medieval Roman church.
This is just one of the incredible photographic spots we can find in Engadin, not far from the famous town of St.Moritz.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @90mm

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4

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Enjoying the Silence
20/11/2014

Unfortunately I never really notice to live on a monotonous and noisy world, where everything is done quickly and where we try to chase strange goals.
Mountain gives me the few opportunities to enjoy solitude and silence, to feel a guest of the Nature on tiptoe, without hurting her. Once charged my batteries I can get back into the world of fiction.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @40mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Inspirational Dolomites
16/11/2014

Dolomites always amaze you, wherever you want to stop and breathe the scent of lime. The symbols of the landscapes seem to have been laid with wisdom, as in a project to further increase the value of the show.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @160mm

Canon EF 28-300 mm f/3.5-5.6 l is usm

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Winter in Red
15/11/2014

We will remember November 2014 for the incredible amount of water fall on the whole northern Italy and Switzerland. This bad weather brought a great discomfort in the Alps but also some pleased notes, such as the snow, always welcome by mountain landscape photographers. Every year, with snowfalls, I start cacthing pictures to one of the subjects I love most across the alpine environment: the Red train of Unesco... Bernina Express!

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Sunrise Bomb!
08/11/2014

After a hard run against the time, to get in time for the sunrise, a bank of clouds intrigues me and invite me to try a long exposure. I would like to capture movement of them toward me. At the end of the 178 seconds i was very surprised to see the clouds well reflected on the lake surface.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @16mm - 178 seconds exposure

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Spaghetti
14/10/2014

I could not resist giving this name to one of the most popular lakes in the Italian Alps. Every year I come to visit, and each time the position gives me great emotions, surely the purpose for which I attend mountains and nature!

Canon EOS 5D mark III @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Mission Glaciers
30/09/2014

My new mission is to tell with photographs the hidden life of mountain glaciers.
This is my first shot to show you its slow but relentless movement toward a sad fate.
Its a very dangerous situation and in those moments you can understand why we are so slight in relation to mother nature.

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Malga Gampen
09/09/2014

Malga Gampen is not so famous in Val di Funes (South Tyrol), but is a nice location to experience sunrise in face of the Odle group. A mountain hut, situated in the middle of the of the fields, is a must in our composition if we want to include a typical building of the Dolomites.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @17mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Lac Blanc, Chamonix
01/08/2014

Let me show you a reflection taken during sunrise from the shore of the Lac Blanc, one of the most scenic lakes we can find in the Alps.
In the foreground we can admire the incredible range of Mont Blanc, with some of the most famous peak of the alpinisme history.
From the left... Aiguille Verte, Les Drus, Grandes Jorasses, Dent du Geant, Aiguille du Midi, Mont Blanc.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @18mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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The Secret of the Lake
24/07/2014

Sometimes Nature changes. It could be that everything happens quickly, in strict silence. We must be cautious and we need to enter in its living room on tiptoe.
We will continue to enjoy its infinite show!

Canon EOS 5D mark II @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Lupinus World
09/07/2014

Lupinus polyphyllus are one of the most spectacular flowers that we may encounter in summertime all over the Alps. I have portrayed them in Engadine (Switzerland), on the shore of the Lake of Sils (St.Moritz). It was during a sudden change of weather, i decided to use a long exposure with a ND1000 filter, so there is in the shot a similar HDR effect.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Föehn
30/06/2014

Föehn is a particular wind phenomena that occurs sometimes in the Alps. For a landscape photographer is a very interesting condition, with clean air, clear skies, interesting clouds, colored sunsets.
I used a long exposure to show you the curious movement of the clouds over the peaks of Valmasino, Italy.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @50mm - 118 seconds (long exposure)

Canon EF 28-300 mm f/3.5-5.6 l is usm

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Help Me... please!
27/06/2014

I studied this shot for a long time... and in fact I would have liked to do it by night. This is a shot a composed shot, a panoramic view with 8 shots on 2 rows. I hope you'll enjoy it.
Lej da la Tscheppa during the summer thaw, Engadin region, Switzerland.

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Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Leopard Lake
10/06/2014

Taking photo to a lake during thaw is a very difficult and dangerous job. Everyday the conditions on his surface changes, normally everything finish within a week, the lake will be completely free of any sign of snow the kept him suffocated during the winter season. The most insidious thing is the risk of going inside for a dive, a very cold dive. I tried it several times and I can say that it is better to stay inside for no more than thirty seconds. Have fun.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Alpine Daffodils
31/05/2014

Alpine season continues, Now I am interested in blooms, after the crocus I am searching for Narcissus (daffodils). It's not easy to find out, year by year, differents spectacular landscapes, so it's a continuous research, from valleys to peaks. In mountain the weather changes very quickly and we dont have more than five clear days on a month. This year I was lucky, Nature also gave me some beautiful clouds!

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Just Nature
16/05/2014

In this frame I dont want to point my photographic attention on an incredible condition of light or into an exceptional moment. I simply immerse myself into the nature and I ask me: can i find something most satisfying than this stunning place?

Canon 5D Mark II @75mm

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM

7,1

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Crocus Season
11/05/2014

Every year, between April and May, my photographic targets moves on the first blooms. The most tenacious flowers, when the snow is leaving the field at the first warm, are the Crocus. But the show lasts a few days and not every year the blooms are so spectacular.

Canon EOS 5D mark II @59mm

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4

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Wild Crocus Blooming
20/04/2014

Every year, between April and May, I dedicate some trekkings going through the Alps searching for wild blooming of crocus. Everytime I found them in different locations, is very difficult to arrive in a place when the flowering is at his best moment.
But sometimes I found them and this is the result!

Canon EOS 5D mark III @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Into the Alps
13/04/2014

This is one of the classic postcards I love to include into my mountains sceneries... I think we have in this landscape many interesting items from the alps: flowering, alpine lake, hikers, reflections, snowy peaks, clouds. Help me to remember what might be missing for the next time I will be there... summer is coming!

Canon EOS 5D mark II @23mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Frozen Wonderland
30/03/2014

At this point of the year we might expect some different landscapes. But at high altitudes in the Alps there is still a moment to wonder in face of these cold emotions that accompany landscapes until the early morning lights.
In Switzerland, this year, spring still can not seem to undermine winter and so I could make this shot on the banks of the River Inn, near Sils (Engadine).

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Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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The Secret of the Glacier
23/03/2014

This is an example of landscape we can find when hiking in the highest altitudes through the Alps. In front of me a very dangerous seasonal lake, more ahead glaciers and peaks next to 4000 meters. Valmalenco, not far from my home, is one of the valley i prefer when i have to choose a location for my daily shooting.

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Winter Fairytale
16/03/2014

On this beautiful alpine scenery of italian Alps I enjoyed a wonderful state of winter bliss. A ton of fresh snow made this alpine village a breathtaking view, there was a tranquil calmness in the air that let the amazing light do all of the talking.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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The Symbol of the Alps
03/03/2014

Photography is not just great light with a majestic sunrise, breathtaking colors or incredible clouds and stars. When photographing, for example in a famous location, we must try to realize some shots that describe the beauty of the place.
Why not to do it in the most classic moment of the day, which is what people are used to experience? Try to study the composition, wait for a unique situation, always with the goal to communicate a small photo story.

Mattherhorn (Monte Cervino) reflected on the famous Stellisee, above Zermatt, with a trekking family on the shore. September 2011, Switzerland.

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Bufera in Paradise
12/02/2014

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Winter Dream
07/02/2014

There are places that have to be photographed in the best way !
I thought I had reached this location in Valtellina (italy) in a unique and exceptional situation, but the record snow of 2014 leads me to rethink it under a new guise!

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Persimmons Time
11/11/2013

Autumn and its colors are leaving our lands but a fruit still stands to give color to the landscapes. Is the Persimmon! After several years of trying I reached to catch it in a contrast of rare beauty, just the day after of an early snowfall.

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Nikon 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G

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The End of the Autumn
08/11/2013

With this shot I close this year autumn session.
It's impossible to understand from the photo that I'm on an island inside the lake, and to take this picture I had to stay in the water, up to my knees, for about ten minutes, with my "Zeiss" in a great dangerous situation.
Well done... now I prepare my warm clothes to devote myself to the fascinating winter landscape full of snow.

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Morning Glory
04/11/2013

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Autumn at Home
03/11/2013

The frost has already started and winter has become a presage at the edge of Lake Entova, a jewel nestled in the woods of the valley of Chiareggio (Valmalenco, Italy).
This was not a very simple shot in order to a difference of luminosity caused by the frontal presence of the sun, just arrived in my shooting position but already high in the horizon.

Canon EOS 5D mark II @17mm

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

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Mountain Underwater
22/10/2013

After the first experiences of underwater photography in the sea, I tried to export my knowledge by applying them to my world, the Alps!
As a first attemp I feel satisfied by the result. The presence of moderate wind, that ruffled the water surface of the lake Palpuogna (Engadin, Switzerland) allowed me to get an interesting blur. I realized this shot with the camera setted in hdr mode, some layer masks to merge all together the differents areas and luminosity.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @19mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Autumn of Granite
21/10/2013

Autumn is the faster season in mountain. You may need to be ready to capture his best moments. The first rains take away with them the magical and colorful leaves adorning the alpine landscape.
This shot was made in one of the best mountain's villages of Switzerland: Soglio, in the Bregaglia Valley. In the background we can admire the "Sciore", the famous castle of granitic peaks of the Bondasca, at the border with italian Valmasino.

Canon EOS 400D @65mm

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4

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The Perfect Autumn
15/10/2013

During all these years the mountain has been full of surprises for me, several times, but there are always moments when you realize to be part of a unique situation, of an unreal landscapes, a breathtaking view. The autumn of 2009 was one of those moments and still now, going back with memory to that october, I get excited by the beauty of the alps.

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Enchanted Village
07/08/2013

As every year the flowering of Starleggia presents themself in time between July and August. I'm in the italian central alps, Spluga Valley (Valchiavenna) and the enchanted village turns pink thanks to epilobium, hiding the remains of a glorious agricultural past.
While I'm taking a picture, an old lady come to me, with maximum respect, and tells me about his youth, of his winters here, of his cows and about the potatoes plantations all around the area. Distant memories that sadden me a little when I think about the abandonment of the mountains.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @27mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Come to the Light
24/07/2013

The light is everything in Landscape Photography.
But unlike many of photographers, who loves to shoot only with warm light, I like to search for beauty in the Nature also in other moments, maybe when the sun is higher or against me, simply for a challenge in my vision of Photography.

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Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Pure Enchantment
19/07/2013

I love mountains since when I was a child.
I am surprised by its hips rough, his slender profiles. Fascinates me how it changes from day to day, I'm cradled by her silence, I bewitch its wide open spaces, its quiet charge me everytime I go to meet them.
I think its beauty is pure enchantment.

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Multicolor Postcard
05/07/2013

I tried for years to realize a shot like this and only after several attempts i reached on my intent. This result is thanks to many conditions overlapped at the appropriate time: the perfect flowering of Rhododendrons, plenty of water in the creek caused by three days of bad weather in the valley, interesting clouds in the sky and the good light, just two hours after the sunrise to provide a good illumination on the scene.
I used a Neutral Density filter (ND1000) plus a Polarizator to allow me to reach a long exposure time of 30 seconds, essential for the flowing effect on the water and into the sky.

Canon EOS 5D mark II @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Double Sunburst
03/07/2013

In the mountains I often take photos in similar situations... but never the same.
In the higher altitudes the landscape changes easily from season to season and from year to year, it is nevertheless essential to diversify the interest of shots with a careful study of the composition and graphic elements that compose it.
In this case I let the sun to focus mirrored into the subject of my photo-trip, the thaw!
A perfect sunburst is prerogative of some camera lenses (better with fisheye and wideangle lenses) but in general with any lens it improves in proportion to a smaller Aperture of the lens.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Summer Beauties
02/07/2013

This is the landscapes I love, this is ITALY!
Finally summer has arrived in the Alps and we can devote ourselves to the blooms that these landscapes offer us from June to September.
Then we will be back with the moment of cold, frost and snow!

Canon EOS 5D mark II @16mm

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Whispering to Dolomites
15/06/2013

Photography can not revive a moment, every moment is fleeting and therefore can not follow this logic. We can, however, try to remember a situation with a click, we can try to convey an emotion, but it must be done in a romantic way , almost whispering to the landscape...

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Lago Saoseo
12/06/2013

Usually, for a well done shot, I come back from two to three times in the same location. I always search for unique and original condition and I think that the mountain environment, with its sudden changes, is the ideal habitat for my veins of landscaper

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Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Double Sun
01/06/2013

The focus and the emotional subject of this shot is certainly the sun.
With this backlight technique I wanted to emphasize its presence with a unusual double presence in the landscape.
How to do it? Just select a wide angle lens, possibly under 17-18mm focal, prepare the camera with a smaller (f-stop) aperture, for example f-18, and find out a moment when the sun is clear from the clouds. Use a tripod if the shutter speed is not higher than 1/100s and perhaps find out a composition with a reflection like in my alpine shot at Gavia Pass, italy.

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Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Splashes of Color
27/05/2013

Nature is like an artist, can amaze us with original and bizarre situations, transforming them into open-air-paintings.
This splashes of colors occurs in the Alps during spring, when the snow leave the open spaces and let the crocus flowers to get out at first sun kisses.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 15mm f/2.8 ZE

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Bernina Express Train
13/05/2013

One of the best experience in the Alps is crossing the border between Italy and Switzerland, comfortably on board of the Bernina Express UNESCO World Heritage train, a milestone in our history...
Just imagine a way to travel from southern (Tirano, IT) to northern alps (Chur, CH) through a landscape of glaciers, over graceful viaducts and bridges (196), through tunnels (55) hewn into the sheer rock, through switch-back tunnels, along rushing mountain streams and even an alpine garden.
The Rhaetian is the highest mountain Railway in the Alps and coexists in perfect harmony with its glorious mountain setting with a record of up to 70 millimetres per metre of incline that are found along its route.
In this picture we can admire the highest point of the ride, the Bernina Pass (2,253 metres), with the spectacular red train that passes (in spring) at the border of the White Lake.

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Precarious
12/05/2013

Beauty is all around us, just to be sought.
I always thought to photography as an art, it must be refined through the study and observation.
I believe we have very poor souls if we are not able to see and to enjoy the great beauty around us! The art of photography preserves all our moments of joy or sadness, friends, relatives, common people, landscapes or amazing views all over the Universe as long as photos can be. They are the memory of our moments of life!
(cit. Sandra Georgescu).

Canon EOS 5D mark II @35mm

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Poison Beauties
11/05/2013

Aconitum napellus is a wonderful summer flower that grows in certain alpine terrains. Very useful for photographic purposes but very dangerous to be photographed, due to the poison content in its plant.
So please... look but dont touch!

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Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

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Springtime in the Alps
10/05/2013

Another shot taken during my daily-trekking through the mountains in search of its hidden beauties. After some years of attempts, this time I found this location in the situation I was looking for. It's not so simple to find certain places in these conditions, many factors change year by year.

Canon EOS 5D mark III @15mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm f/3.5 ZE

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Nature in Peace
04/05/2013

A new day begins and life again moves his steps.
I love listening to the peace of nature that every day wakes up and gives me new emotions, as in this shot full of tranquility.
I am on the shores of Sils Lake (Lej da Segl), in Engadin near St.Moritz, the first light embraces in the foreground Piz Da La Margna, a peak that exceeds 3,000 metres of altitude.

See you... Winter!
29/04/2013

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Chevaux
28/04/2013

Horses stand up, at the first sun rays, in front of Aiguilles d'Arves, in the french Alps of Dauphinè-Ecrins.
The Aiguilles d’Arves (3,514 metres) is a mountain in the Arves massif in the French Alps. The mountain, comprising three separate peaks is the highest point of the massif, and is located in the department of Savoie.

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Seasonal Indecisions
28/04/2013

Every year, between April to June, I look after to the spectacle of changing in Nature elements.
At the higher alpine elevations it's as if the seasons had some indecision: the flowers struggle to get out from the snow while the ice trys to return at the liquid state.
In this shot I try to interpretate this switch from winter to spring.

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Odle Spring
26/04/2013

Wake up early in the morning!
Ok... you wanted to sleep some more time, but you would have lost the unique emotions as the fog cleared by the first rays of the sun, with the anemones that open to spring.
This shot was taken in Funes Valley, at the foot of the Odle Dolomites group.

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Crocus Nivea
14/04/2013

When spring begins my photographic attention moves on the high altitudes blooms. First of all it is the turn of the Crocus Nivea that appears in the Alps in the meadows from April to early June. Normally I found them from 1,000 meters above sea level to 2,000 meters.
It's like a hunt, you must arrive at the right time and hope that the winter has done everything necessary to make a great show... conditions are never the same year by year.

The Matterhorn Silhouette
04/04/2013

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MirrorAlps
03/04/2013

This is one of my favourite alpine scenery, 2 hours drive from home. I made this shot during a crisp autumn day. This is not a lake but just seasonal water remained in a pool at almost 3000 meters high near Stilfser Joch, between Italy and Switzerland.
My luck, after discovering this location, it was the arrival of these magnificent clouds.

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Mont Blanc Reflection
27/03/2013

Cheserys lakes, situated in the Chamonix french mountains, are one of the most spectacular alpine location where to capture a scenic panorama. Here we can admire the highest elevation in the Alps, Mont Blanc, in a contest of supreme beauty. Go there, maybe in summer, and you will put a indelible memory in your heart!

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Frosty Perspective
27/02/2013

A very cold morning, before the sunrise, in the higher Engadine, near St.Moritz Switzerland. Just the time to go out from the car to do some frosty shot to the famous churh of Sils-Maria reflected into the Inn river.

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The Enchanted Landscape
25/01/2013

Not every day and not in all seasons a landscape looks so wonderful.
For this reason the landscape photographers should be skilled and talented to choose the exact moment, chasing the nature by the right way.
I think that this landscape is best represented in winter, but is not enough if we want to make the postcard as an enchanted landscape. For example choose the sunrise and go there when the snow has just fallen down!

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My Wedding Day
24/01/2013

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Daily Dreaming
12/01/2013

I walked a lot in the mountains, with cold and strong wind, with unbearable weight on the shoulders, I had many disappointments and many I will encount.
But i don't count the hours spent climbing the mountains, I don't count the days waiting for the light, what really matters is that there are moments that pay off everything, and make us forget every stress!

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Magic Switzerland
11/01/2013

Nature gives surprises and new beauties every day. I chased this shot for a long time... are necessary the ideal conditions to portray the Suisse Engadine lakes with both the colors of autumn and the first snow.
I will always remember the truly magical contrast. Is very important in these situations, apparently easy, to not be carried away by emotions and focus on the shoot.

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Monti Pallidi
26/11/2012

An alpine lake, the reflections, the light, the clouds, the flowers, the composition: a set of factors that I always try to catch up and then fix them all together in an indelible image. Fanes, Italian Dolomites.

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Nikon 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G

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Dolomiti? Yes, Brenta!
04/11/2012

I love the mountains, in all their forms, but they are never fully repaid until I haven’t shot one of their pearls. And if I am lucky enough to bump into a lake, then I really feel committed to bring home its indelible memory! Choose the season and the time carefully and the mountains will repay you by filling your heart!

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Matterhorn... the beautiful!
28/10/2012

Matterhorn (Cervino) is one of the most beautiful mountains in the world, an icon symbol of the Alps, so easily photographed in every guise. I therefore could have asked Nature for nothing more when that day it offered me such an unusual situation! And thanks to Fate too!

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Autumn Waterfall
22/10/2012

During my mountain trips I often try to escape the traditional paths in search of some hidden views that the landscape always jealously conceals. In this case I was in Valle d'Aosta's Park of Mont Avic in the middle of autumn... waiting for sunset when I suddenly stumbled upon this wonder that I captured with a long shutter speed.

Canon EOS 5D mark III - @20mm - LEE + ND Filters

Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L II

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Autumn Reflection
20/10/2012

Is in the most beautiful situations we often fail to extract an image able to evoke the beauty of the moment. It is the task of the photographer to capture a scene in an artistic way, by introducing elements of interest just apparently hidden in the landscape.

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Autumn Incoming
08/10/2012

I've been feeling the first faint signs of the coming autumn for days, so it's now time for me to take up this new challenge. May something surprising be waiting for me in Engadine (Switzerland) today? I decide to take it this way, soaring high above the clouds and looking for the first light of colours!

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Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm f/3.5 ZE

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Nivolet Lakes
27/09/2012

A spectacular view of the valley leading to the Col del Nivolet in the province of Turin (Piedmont). The Alps have often been exploited for hydroelectric purposes. Nevertheless, some artificial lakes that have formed are well integrated into the landscape.

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King of Rock
25/09/2012

Monviso, "the clearly visible mountain", is a symbol of water in Italy. Here the long course of the Po River begins its journey to the sea. Its prominent summit, easily distinguishable from the distant plain, is the tenth in the entire Alpine region. A long exposure through a neutral density filter allowed me to emphasize the flowing of the waterfall.

Canon EOS 5D mark III - @18mm

Zeiss Distagon T* 18mm f/3.5 ZE

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Les Aiguilles
13/09/2012

The mountain is for me a source of inspiration and isolation from the chaos of the everyday world. Photography thus becomes a means of trying to remember forever the good times we had together, the mountains and I love to capture unusual images in isolated places or not so famous. Different situations are for me the source of inspiration when I brush my shots, as in this case where a simple cloud draws plots of contrasting lights.